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  • July 04, 2011

    This guy needs a better imagination. Inmate Kyle Richards, 21, is suing the state of Michigan, claiming that a jailhouse porn ban amounts to cruel and unusual punishment. In his handwritten...

  • July 03, 2011

    This nutjob's the one who's out of line -- or maybe it's just an extreme case of obsessive-compulsive disorder. A Jacksonville, Fla., guy mailing a package allegedly used a gun to threaten a man...

  • July 02, 2011

    Cops questioned and then arrested a West Virginia man who allegedly stole thousands of dollars in copper phone wires after they noticed that the kind of heavy-duty rope he was using as a belt is...

  • July 01, 2011

    What's worse than swimming with the fishes? A group of bathers in Massachusetts just found out. After a 36-year-old woman drowned in a public pool in Fall River, no one spotted her body for two...

  • June 30, 2011

    This probably isn't how Jet Li rehearses. A Wisconsin man was arrested for reckless endangerment when he wildly swung his sword through a wall and into a neighbor's apartment. The kook said...

  • June 29, 2011

    It probably never occurred to Thomas Jefferson, but a Yankee fan from New Jersey says that under the First Amendment, nobody can keep him from naming his new bar Buck Foston's. Larry Blatterfein...

  • June 28, 2011

    He's still making history. Former President George W. Bush was among hundreds of Texas Ranger fans who set a new Guinness world record for the most people wearing sunglasses in the dark. While...

  • June 27, 2011

    What a grave mistake! A Tennessee man's body is being exhumed -- to retrieve dentures that belong to someone else. Kenneth Ray Manis, 76, passed away earlier this month in Chattanooga, and...

  • June 26, 2011

    The late-night Alaskan sun wasn't bright enough for these visitors. The 106th annual Midnight Sun baseball game in Fairbanks had to be suspended for the first time after the visiting team from...

  • June 25, 2011

    A man sneaked onto an Arizona Air Force base dressed as a two-star general just to go shopping at the base commissary. He pulled off two illegal shopping trips before his phony brass was...

  • June 24, 2011

    Making a bogus doomsday prediction can make you rich in America -- but in Taiwan, it can get you fined. Phony "prophet" Wang Chao-hung found that out the hard way when he claimed the island...

  • June 23, 2011

    She sure can hold a grudge. A 68-year-old California woman spent six years in prison for shooting her neighbor in the leg. After she was released, she was promptly rearrested when she again...

  • June 22, 2011

    A yearbook from a California high school is getting an XXX rating. One candid shot shows a teenager sticking his hand up the dress of a 15-year-old girl at the school in Big Bear Lake. Students...

  • June 21, 2011

    The country's busiest cat burglar has stolen more than 600 pieces of loot from homes in San Mateo, Calif. Dusty the klepto-kitty has grabbed items including gloves, a Giants cap and even the top...

  • June 20, 2011

    A judge at an ultra-religious court in Jerusalem sentenced a dog to death by stoning -- saying the pooch was a reincarnated lawyer who dissed other judges two decades ago. The hound recently...

  • June 19, 2011

    This was worth the read. A Maine elementary-school principal in a hippo ballerina costume danced on the school roof after students met her reading challenge. The South Portland students...

  • June 18, 2011

    Oops! A Phoenix SWAT-team sniper wound up shooting a hostage after the hostage taker swapped clothes with her at gunpoint. The victim is in critical condition but expected to live, while the...

  • June 17, 2011

    It's pretty easy to gross out the nice folks in Portland, Ore. After a drunk 21-year-old man was caught peeing in the city's water reservoir, officials were so skeeved that they decided to dump...

  • June 16, 2011

    This protective kid is pretty good with a blade. A 9-year-old Milwaukee grade-schooler sprang into action when she saw her mom's ex-lover holding a knife to the woman's throat. The girl...

  • June 15, 2011

    Talk about getting rushed out of a restaurant. The owner of three Marie Callender's restaurants in Washington state declared bankruptcy and ordered managers to shut down immediately, in...

  • June 14, 2011

    A Miami newspaper is feeling some heat today. In one of the most embarrassing mistakes since 1948, when the Chicago Tribune proclaimed "Dewey Defeats Truman," yesterday's Miami Herald ran an ad...

  • June 13, 2011

    TSA agents pulled a 29-year-old mentally handicapped man out of line because he was armed -- with a toy plastic hammer. Detroit airport officers confiscated the toy from Drew Mandy, who has the...

  • June 12, 2011

    There was no goodwill for grandma. Workers at a Fenton, Mich., Goodwill thrift store sifting through donated items found a box labeled "grandma's ashes" with a marble urn inside. Store...

  • June 11, 2011

    Here's one from bizarro world. A guy carrying an animal carcass rang the doorbell of a Hoquiam, Wash., resident. The resident asked, "Why are you carrying a dead weasel?" The guy answers,...

  • June 10, 2011

    A 66-year-old woman who said she wanted to shower "poor Mexican women" with gifts went into a randomly selected discount store in San Diego and paid for a $5,000 shopping spree for 50 seƱoras and...

  • June 09, 2011

    Women at a new courthouse near Columbus, Ohio, are wearing long pants these days after realizing a glass staircase has become a haven for peepers who look up their skirts. Judge Julie Lynch says...

  • June 08, 2011

    Have you seen this ass? Cops in Baltimore released a photo of a bank bandit's butt -- hoping someone can identify it. When the robber jumped a counter, his baggy pants dropped and a security...

  • June 07, 2011

    Blimey! She's become a Brit. Karen Butler of Toledo, Ore. -- who's never been anywhere in Europe -- underwent dental surgery and woke up speaking with a British accent. After doing some online...

  • June 06, 2011

    No one showed up for a class reunion at upstate Parish HS. But you can forgive the wayward students from the Class of 1936, because only four of the 20 grads are still alive. Parish HS alum...

  • June 05, 2011

    They must be really bored in this corner of Utah. Dale Price of American Fork dresses up in a different costume every morning and goes outside to wave goodbye to his teenage son leaving for...

  • June 04, 2011

    For customer loyalty like this, she better get the biggest toaster ever. A 100-year-old Ohio woman has held the same bank account since 1913. June Gregg's dad opened it for her at Huntington...

  • June 03, 2011

    When police in Independence, Mo., found an alligator lurking in some weeds, they shot it twice -- only to find out that it was fake. The gunned-down gator turned out to be a concrete statue put...

  • June 02, 2011

    This guy pulled a DWI hat trick. Tim McGowan reportedly got busted for driving under the influence three times in three days in three towns in and around San Francisco. In one of the busts,...

  • June 01, 2011

    Some very unusual volunteers are helping with cleanup efforts in tornado-ravaged Joplin, Mo. The Piccadilly Circus had been scheduled to perform at a local arena in the days following the monster...

  • May 31, 2011

    What a prick! A lawyer in Lake Mary, Fla., is suing a supermarket and a flower importer for $18,000 -- because his client's finger was pricked by a thorn on a rose stem. Paul Thompson's suit...

  • May 30, 2011

    Don't Tase me, sis! A Salt Lake City man has filed a federal lawsuit against a Utah Highway Patrol trooper, claiming she had no right to zap him twice with a Taser after he refused to take a...

  • May 29, 2011

    These guys sure aren't driving Good Humor trucks. Two ice-cream vendors in Uniontown, Pa., are locked in a heated rivalry and have accused each other of demolition-derby road-rage tactics on...

  • May 28, 2011

    Here's come the bride -- and there goes the maid of honor to jail. A wedding in York, Maine, wound up in the annals of bad nuptials when maid of honor Linda Endicott was arrested. She had...

  • May 27, 2011

    ere's a nice house for sale in Silver Springs, Md., that you can get for a song, if you don't mind that it's a repeat murder scene. Two people, a father and daughter, were killed in a robbery...

  • May 26, 2011

    Two muggers in Fayetteville, NC, thought they spotted an easy mark: a lone woman walking through a housing-complex parking lot at 1 a.m. Boy, were they wrong! She yelled and 15 of her friends...

  • May 25, 2011

    He lived up to his name. Glenn Stoner has been busted for the second time on pot-related charges, police in Clearwater, Fla., said. Cops said they found 19 marijuana plants growing in his...

  • May 24, 2011

    A Kentucky man arrested for shoplifting had customers who placed orders for shoes and clothing -- which he then went out and grabbed for them, police said. Sean Harrington's phone "had numerous...

  • May 23, 2011

    This chase had a lot fueling it. Cops in Oklahoma shot out the wheels of a tanker truck after its driver refused to pull over for allegedly running a red light. The odd chase began in Owasso...

  • May 22, 2011

    Talk about hay fever. A seemingly harmless senior class prank at Durango HS in Colorado shut down classes for a week after 30 bales of hay were spread throughout the hallways. The hay caused...

  • May 21, 2011

    A Utah family purchased a home that turned out to have some hidden extra value. After moving into their new digs outside Salt Lake City, Josh Ferrin and his wife and kids found in the attic...

  • May 20, 2011

    An armored car crashed on I-95 in Florida when it swerved trying to avoid hitting a mother duck and her ducklings waddling across the highway. Tragically, mama duck lost her life, but the babies...

  • May 19, 2011

    A Wisconsin man has become a real-life Mayor McCheese after eating his record 25,000th Big Mac. It took Don Gorske 39 years of burger munching to reach the meaty milestone. Amazingly, Gorske,...

  • May 18, 2011

    Warning: This item could make you laugh yourself to death. A Georgia group has announced the finalists in its Wacky Warning Labels contest. They include the warning on a ballpoint pen that...

  • May 17, 2011

    If you've been searching for a reason to visit Logan, Ohio, you're finally in luck. It's the new home of the Pencil Sharpener Museum, which displays hundreds of the devices, the oldest dating...

  • May 16, 2011

    The next competition for Miss Wisconsin USA will be in court. Shaletta Porterfield, formerly Miss Madison, gave up her crown because she's been busted for alleged identity theft. Her defense...

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